Mechanism to dynamically allocate physical storage device resources in virtualized environments

A Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), comprising:

• a first virtual Input/Output (I/O) queue for a first request from a first virtual machine (VM) on a host device;
• a second virtual I/O queue for a second request from a second VM on the host device;
• and
• a circuit to associate the first virtual I/O queue of the FPGA with an I/O queue on a storage device, so that the first request received from the VM using the first virtual I/O queue of the FPGA is delivered to the I/O queue of the storage device and a result received from the I/O queue of the storage device is delivered to the VM using the first virtual I/O queue of the FPGA,
• wherein the FPGA supports a virtual I/O queue creation command to request allocation of the first virtual I/O queue for the first VM, the virtual I/O queue creation command including an LBA range attribute for a range of Logical Block Addresses (LBAs) to be associated with the virtual I/O queue, and to request allocation of the second virtual I/O queue for the second VM, and
• wherein the storage device, separate from but connected to the FPGA, is configured to associate the range of LBAs to a range of Physical Block Addresses (PBAs) in the storage device.